Item description
A screenshot of a webpage with black text and a white background. At the top left corner is the name of the website, “COVID-19 signage archive”; and at the top right are links to different sections of the website, titled “about”, “map”, “tags”, and “upload”. In the far right corner is a search bar. A thin line separates the top from the webpage content. Underneath is a map that is in black with the continents in white. Throughout the continents are red dots that mark where the signs can be located. Beneath the map is a list of 74 cities across the world with these signs.
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COVID-19 Signage Archive 3
Eli Fessler
The COVID-19 Signage Archive, located at https://covid-signage.net/, aims to preserve and invite exploration of the worldwide, physical, pandemic-related messaging that has come into existence beginning in early 2020. The project seeks to archive these ephemera, and to help document the linguistic landscapes of shared concepts such as social/physical distancing, mask-wearing, and hand washing – while simultaneously serving as an accessible dataset/corpus available for linguistic and sociological analysis.
